The world has changed. The world is changing as you read this. The world of clean, renewable energy has transformed in a matter of months and years.

Renewable energy and improving how we use energy is core to global leaders acting onclimate change. Renewable energy is core to ensuring sustainable energy access for all. We must be reducing energy use, making energy use more efficient, and transitioning our power sources to renewable energy.

We need hard, tangible energy commitments in four weeks at the UN Climate Summit in September, called by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon – who, himself, has called on governments and institutions to be the change we need to see on financing better, renewable energy sources.

The energy infrastructure in place by 2017 may define the world’s path on climate change. The investment decisions made this year and next will make or break the type of energy infrastructure we live with – and the climate change that comes with that.

WWF calls on governments to increase investment in renewable energy drastically – through sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and policy. Governments must also phase out investments in coal, oil and gas in the same way.

This – too – can be done.

May leading nations continue to raise the bar, and may others join in changing the course of the world.

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IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE THE THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

The science is absolutely clear, and frightening: if we don’t transform the way we use energy – rapidly and comprehensively – then we face catastrophic climate change. The level of global warming we’re heading for will cost countless lives, derail development and devastate the ecosystems upon which we all depend, and which WWF has fought so hard to protect.

If we act now, we can overcome the threat of climate change, and create a fairer and more sustainable world in which energy from efficient and renewable resources will cover the needs of all people. The solutions exist.

WWF’s climate and energy vision is a response both to the science and to new economic and political realities. Through its Global Climate & Energy Initiative (GCEI) we are focused on achieving climate resilient, low carbon developments at national level and with the corporate sector. International advocacy, including work with public and private finance, provides strong support for national action.